Inferno decoded
By: Michael Haag ; with Greg Ward
Contributors: Ward, Greg
Edition: First Gallery books trade paperback edition.
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781476753447; 9781476751863
Subjects: Inferno (Brown, Dan)
Description: What is the real truth behind the mysteries of Dan Brown's latest blockbuster thriller? In this illuminating unofficial companion to Dan Brown's Inferno, popular historian Michael Haag, author of the bestselling Rough Guide to the Da Vinci Code, unpacks Dante's allegorical poetic masterpiece of the same name, delivering fascinating, crucial background for the characters, settings, and riddles in Brown's controversial and compel&#x00AD;ling world. How do the clues unveiled in symbology professor Robert Langdon's daring quest from Florence to Venice and Istanbul overlap with history? What codes and symbols did Dante employ in the Divine Comedy and which secret religious, philosophical, and scientific themes are hidden within his work? What lies behind Botticelli's "La Mappa dell'Inferno"? And what are the cult scientists known as transhumanists really up to? Inferno Decoded is a book that ranges as widely as Dan Brown's novel, from the terrors of the Black Death to the scientific debates around pop&#x00AD;ulation growth and prolonging of life-spans, and from the economic, political, and religious tumult in Florence at the dawn of the Renais&#x00AD;sance to real-life locations in Florence, Venice, and Istanbul today.
Notes: "Originally published in 2013 in Great Britain by Profile Books, Ltd."

"The unauthorized, illustrated, all-inclusive companion to Dan Brown's Inferno"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Dante and his world. Dante Alighieri; title: Beatrice; title: Divine Comedy; title: Florence and the Black Death; title: Humanism: the rediscovery of a better world; title: Botticelli and infernal art; title: World in danger? Mathematics of Malthus; title: Apocalypse now?; title: Transhumanists: the eternal optimists; title: Infernal locations. Florence; title: Venice and Istanbul; title: Dan Brown and his world. Langdon & Brown; title: Infernal glossary.